I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

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

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

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

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.