If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

We won't get fooled again!

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.