Life Is More Or Less A Lie,

Fortune Or Fame, You Must Pick One Or The Other, Though Neither Of Them Are To Be What They Claim.

Some Formulas Are Too Complex And I Don't Want Anything To Do With Them.

My Songs Were Influenced Not So Much By Poetry On The Page But By Poetry Being Recited By The Poets Who Recited Poems With Jazz Bands.

Satan Will Give You A Little Taste, Then He'll Move In With Rapid Speed.

I Don't Know If I Call Myself A Poet Or Not. I Would Like To, But I'm Not Really Qualified To Make That Decision, Because I Come In On Such A Back Door, That I Don't Know What A Robert Frost Or A [john] Keats Or A T.s. Eliot Would Really Think Of My Stuff.