When I was 15, all the boys at school had off-road motorbikes. I wasn't allowed to have one, so I just went out and bought one. My parents took the keys.
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . . Music should never be harmless. . . . I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.
I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.