the original vagabond you strayed into my arms and there you stayed

i'd really like to know more about joan baez and bob dylans relationship

DYLAN: Yeah, it was mostly rejected footage, which I found beauty in. Which probably tells you more-that I see beauty where other people don't.

PLAYBOY: That reminds us of a poem you wrote for the jacket of an early Joan Baez album, in which you claimed that you always thought something had to be ugly before you found it beautiful. And at some point in the poem, you described listening to Joan sing and suddenly deciding that beauty didn't have to start out by being ugly

DYLAN: I was very hung up on Joan at the time [Pause] I think I was just trying to tell myself I wasn't hung up on her.

playboy interview

As I remember your eyes 

Were bluer than robin's eggs 

My poetry was lousy you said 

Where are you calling from? 

A booth in the midwest 

Ten years ago 

I bought you some cufflinks 

You brought me something 

We both know what memories can bring 

They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene 

Already a legend 

The unwashed phenomenon 

The original vagabond 

You strayed into my arms 

And there you stayed 

Temporarily lost at sea 

The Madonna was yours for free 

Yes the girl on the half-shell 

Would keep you unharmed

Now you're telling me 

You're not nostalgic 

Then give me another word for it 

You who are so good with words 

And at keeping things vague 

Because I need some of that vagueness now 

It's all come back too clearly 

Yes I loved you dearly 

And if you're offering me diamonds and rust 

I've already paidd

nobody is coming from outer space, from the invisible world

We need to take over the corporations. We need to take over the banks. We need to take over all that stuff. And, the goal of that is to save the environment, save the planet. Don’t destroy the planet. Nobody is coming from outer space, from the invisible world. He’s not coming. He’s not coming back. He was here. Did you miss the message? He’s not coming back and when He comes back, everything will be alright. He’s not coming back. We have to change the environment. We have to save it. We have to stop emitting all of the pollutants into the air because He’s not coming back to right it. I keep wondering why the hell – no offense if you are a Republican and if you are, let me offer you something to think about – why don’t they care about the environment? How come they don’t care about the environment? You know why? Because when He comes back…

Really. I can’t breathe the air, I’m sorry, on a bad day in L.A., you look up. Well what is that all from? What’s that from? That’s from the exhaust from the cars. Let’s clean it up. So anyway, that’s what we were all about and hopefully you want to do it too. You’ve gotta vote and you’ve got to buy. You’ve got two powers. You’ve got ballot power and you’ve got dollar power. What are you going to buy? Don’t buy junk, don’t buy crap, don’t buy the manufactured stuff. Buy produce that’s made close to home within a 150 mile radius. We’ve gotta put our thinking caps on. You have to because of the fuckin’ old timers man. You guys shouldn’t have to worry about this. You should worry about your job and your significant other. It’s up to us, but unfortunately, you pass 60 and you become very afraid, and you can’t maintain that rebel stance anymore. You’re going to see it the old fashioned way and you can’t turn into the new way of doing things. So you guys have to add to the numbers of the hip old people versus the squares. It always was – it’s the lovers versus the killers and it’s still that way.

collider.com interivew with sheila roberts - april 7 2010

yer gonna make me lonesome when you go

Situations have ended sad

Relationships have all been bad

Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud

But there’s no way I can compare

All those scenes to this affair

Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go

Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m doin’

Stayin’ far behind without you

Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m sayin’

Yer gonna make me give myself a good talkin’ to

you tend to look deeper and deeper inside yourself to find the music

Being a musician means-depending on how far you go-getting to the depths of where you are at. And most any musician would try anything to get to those depths, because playing music is an immediate thing-as opposed to putting paint on a canvas, which is a calculated thing. Your spirit flies when you are playing music. So, with music, you tend to look deeper and deeper inside yourself to find the music. That's why, I guess, grass was around those clubs. I know the whole scene has changed now; I mean, pot is almost a legal thing. But in the old days, it was just for a few people.

playboy interview - march 1966

i think im gonna love you for a long long time

Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day
You'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws
Who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was
Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

 Darin Invasion 1970

written by Gary B. White

Universal MCA Music (ASCAP)

jeff buckley on mojo pin

"This is a song about obsession. Sometimes if somebody you feel you need… the whole universe tells you, you have to have her, you start watching her TV-shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the least dangerous thing… this is called Mojo Pin."

my favorite performance of this song

 Glastonbury Festival, UK, June 25th, 1995

i left you because i love you

My skin is tight underneath the tear, dried upon my cheeks the night I cried.
When I smiled Good Morning to you, my crow's feet let you know that I lied.
Please let me give these gifts of mine to the woman who eyes shined on my back
as I slept. I left you because I loved you.

vanessa paradis

“He’s above all a real musician. With his band, he crossed the US in a broken down car, he’s always loved that. He’s a very good guitarist. Like everything he takes on, music or acting, he does it better than anyone. He does it with his guts, and he has nice guts!”

"First of all, you have to be lucky enough to find the right person. Next, the fact that we’re not together every day plays a big part in keeping our relationship stable. And then we also have a lot of respect and admiration for each other. We understand that, if we want our relationship to continue, we must give each other space, allow each other to go off on our own, and trust each other."

"You’re really lucky if you find someone you can trust when you spend time apart. But it’s more complicated than that. Keeping love alive should be like the way you live your life: you don’t eat the same meal every day, you don’t read the same book, you don’t listen to the same CD. When you are a couple, you need to go off alone and discover things for yourself."

"I could make an endless list of all the things I admire about him, but above all I admire his immense loyalty. I love watching him when he’s thoughtful or involved in something. I love observing him when he is talking to people. I love seeing how he deals with situations… I could go on and on, tell you I admire him as an actor, as a father and as the man he is for me. But more than anything, I admire him as a person. Not only when he is talking to me or his mother, but as a person in the world, in all kinds of situations. I think he is magnificent. Truly magnificent."

Marie Claire UK - August 2010

it's really nice to have good friends that do what you do

"I like putting things together that are a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I would never wear my street clothes onstage. I do appreciate the fact that people have left their house to come to a show.”

“I am a very emotional person. If I am feeling very strongly about something, I write a song about it.”

venus zine -  june 2008*

"I was always trying to prove that I could do everything that the boys could do. I had such an attitude. I had a tough-guy problem. I wanted to be bulletproof."

village voice - may 2007

"I used to bleach my hair blonde [in my teens]. I was wearing some sort of hideous polyester light-blue pantsuit or something, and my friend said, 'Joan, you are channelling Angie Dickinson from Police Woman!' The other [show I loved] was Charlie's Angels. But that was always bikinis and fluffy hair curling. Angie was a different vibe."

"I'm a person who likes to put myself in uncomfortable positions, if I think I'm going to learn from them. Now I'm more comfortable feeling vulnerable. Before, I was so obsessed with being tough. I was bulletproof, which, if you ever act like that, you know it's the absolute opposite of how you feel.".

sydney morning herald - sept 2006

...it's really nice to have good friends that do what you do. The fact is, in New York City you can't really get away from it, it's like everyone's an artist – everyone! I've lived here for a long time and I have a group of friends that I really look forward to seeing. That's why I love living here, because of the people, I think that's true for most people.

yorkshire evening post - november 2008

i want to be loved for something i am

I can overwhelm people with my feelings. It’s been a problem of mine since I was a kid. I’ve got to write. It’s an unspoken thing. I want to be loved for something I am. I’m easily hurt, which is why I know I can’t pay attention to my press.

i got noone to run to but at least i got nobody i need to please

And i know i’d recognize your face 
Your memory keeps haunting me 
And i can’t forget what time won’t erase 

tim buckley

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change.

There is no way to escape being separated from them.
"Don’t say Goodbye like you’re burying him, because the world is round and he might return"
Regina Spektor

"oh, did i mention when i see you it stings like hell?"
the academy is

"misery is not attractive. if you want to be loved you have to be worth loving, that’s the first rule. and second- be the flame, not the moth."
Casanova

"It is strange to think, I haven’t seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle."
A Knight’s Tale

"But I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday / To be holding Bobby’s body next to mine."
Me & Bobby McGee

"I really don’t even know you and yet in my life you are forever entangled to my history inextricably bound”
Sarah Ockler

"And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another’s eyes.”
Meg Rosoff What I Was

they grow attached to their masks

Most people love you for who you pretend to be… to keep their love, you keep pretending—performing. You get to love your pretense… it’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.
And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image—they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

interview with lizzie james

shirts i need in my life/closet

if anyone is so kind as to share the fountain of where cool vintage band shirts can be purchased from, i would be eternally grateful.