Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?