I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

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.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

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