Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.