Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.