I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.