The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.