I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.