Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.
