You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.