Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.