I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

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

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.