“Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.”

“Two birds on a wire
One tries to fly away
And the other watches him close from that wire
He says he wants to as well
But he is a liar”

“So let me be thy choir, and make a moan
Upon the midnight hours”

“My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”

“Now I'm going into darkness
trying to find my light
my heart is like an eclipse
every hour's midnight
Feel like time is running out
I need to break free
cos I'm going into darkness
and you're the only one who can't see”

“I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!”

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

“I'm not a teetotaler. People know that I like to have my drinks. Specially when I go to work. I don't like to get drunk. I don't go out drunk. I never would, for respect to the audience. But sometimes I have a drink. I am a very nervous person, extremely nervous. So to calm me down, I like having a drink before going on stage.”

“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ”

“I sit in my tree
I sing like the birds
My beak is my pen
My songs are my poems.”