People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

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.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

I was never a topical songwriter.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.