Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.