I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people. David Berman Read Quote
I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don’t know, I haven’t read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are. David Berman Read Quote
I don’t have time for language poetry anymore. I don’t want to throw people off anymore. David Berman Read Quote
For a long time, I’ve struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression. David Berman Read Quote
I don’t have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I’m on the other side of my career of being a Lothario. David Berman Read Quote
Some nights I’m funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I’m not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot and struggle with the mic stand in a ridiculous way. David Berman Read Quote
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn’t write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better. David Berman Read Quote
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37. David Berman Read Quote
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through – the last fifty maybe just going back and forth on a single line or word selection. David Berman Read Quote
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. David Berman Read Quote
