All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.