On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

I don't really have a retirement plan.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

The longer you live, the better you get.

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.