The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.