For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.