I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I’ll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
I don’t build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There’s a well on the hill, let it be.
Won’t you look down upon me Jesus, you’ve got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
O, it’s enough to be on your way. It’s enough just to cover ground. It’s enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.
I collect hats. That’s what you do when you’re bald.
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
Somehow it helps just to take something that’s internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
I’m glad about what’s happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn’t like music. They didn’t trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
I have a studio in a barn at home – we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It’s fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
I know there are people who don’t like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good – they don’t bother me and when they do contact me it’s usually on the nicest possible terms.
It’s a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you’re being autobiographical.
If the gig’s going really well, I’m incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.