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

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

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.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.