Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes