I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.