Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

your problem is that wanna better word for world

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.