You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.