I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.