We’re here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?
I don’t like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don’t believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.
Baby, in a world without pity, do you think what I’m asking too much? I just want to feel you in my arms, share a little of that human touch.
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you’re a walking, talking reason to live.
Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.
Blood moon risin’ in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.
We’re gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it’s gonna be alright.
I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn’t know my own face.
You can’t kill your way to security and you can’t lead by scaring people.
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody’s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that’s what other people who I admired did. That’s what Bob Dylan did, that’s what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
I know your mama she don’t like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
I’m not in any rush. I’m not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That’s not something I’ve ever really quite done.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.