Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
Wasn’t making any great connection Wasn’t falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams.
And there’s no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.
There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.
I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.
You’ve got to lose your passion for dumbness.
The government’s not going to create jobs. It doesn’t have to. People have to create jobs...
I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
If you can’t lend a hand, then get out of the way.
Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you.
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you’d have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.
My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take to find dignity.