You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

It's not dark yet But it's getting there

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.