Arm chair warriors often fail.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.