Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.