When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

Lyricists play with words.

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.