It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.