The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.