I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
It’s not easy to define poetry.
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I’ll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
Rumble is the best instrumental ever.
We never thought we could ever get old.
You had no faith to lose and you know it.
Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what’s the reason for?
I’m inconsistent, even to myself.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we’re forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God’s on your side.
You’re better than no one and no one is better than you.
I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.
For the loser now Will be later to win.