If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

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

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.