Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.