Serious numbers will speak to us always.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

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

The phrasing didn't work as well.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.