Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it’s pleasure, but you don’t get wiped out.
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
They’ve got a wall in China, it’s a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I’ve got a wall around me, you can’t even see.
Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.
Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they’ve been going at it all night long.
You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.