Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.