You don`t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they`re poets. I don`t call myself a poet because I don`t like the word. I`m a trapeze artist.
[from his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys in 1991] Well, my daddy, he didn`t leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, "Son," he said, "you know it`s possible to becom...
[on the legendary Woodstock Festival] I didn`t want to be part of that thing. I liked the town. I felt they exploited the shit out of that, going up there and getting 15 million people all in the same spot. That don`t excite me. The flower generation - is...
You don`t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they`re poets. I don`t call myself a poet because I don`t like the word. I`m a trapeze artist.
