What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.
I’m not anything that you think I am
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind
These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be See the diameter of your knowledge Is the circumference of your activity
The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.