If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right