Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I was never a topical songwriter.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.