Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.