In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

The people in my songs are all me.

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.