Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Dyin' is a pain in the ass.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps