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.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.