If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

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

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.