Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

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.

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

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

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