Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.