The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on