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" Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. "

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" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever. "

" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

" I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. "

" Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. "

" I was born in a suit. "

" There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. "

" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "

" This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. "

" There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind. "

" I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. "

" As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. "

" Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. "

" There were times that I thought I was good looking. "

" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "

" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "

" There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion. "

" I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out. "

" I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. "

" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it. "

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" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

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" As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. "