Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.