I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language though so I am always aware of every word's meaning or multiple meanings.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as in our minds names do in the course of a year or two.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.