Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?