People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.