I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.