The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

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.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.