It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

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

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you