You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.