We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.