The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

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.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.