A song is anything that can walk by itself.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

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.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

You say love is just a four letter word.