I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all the songs about love and all the movies and all the books, there doesn't seem to be any way that we can prepare the human heart for this experience.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.