You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)