So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.