Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.