As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.