Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.