The purpose of art is to stop time.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

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.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?