We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
From Leonard Cohen
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
Music is the emotional life of most people.
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
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