Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

How can you live in the Northeast?

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.