People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.