I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.