People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

It's not easy to define poetry.