Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.
I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.
I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful So, who will you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'Cause it's high time that you decide It's time to make up your own Your own state of mind Oh they told you life is long Be thankful when it's done Don't ask for more, be grateful But I tell you life is short Be thankful because Before you know it It will be over 'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
