That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.

I don't even know what I don't even know.

There aren't enough people fighting for being conservative with your sexual tastes. There's a little too much adventuresome stuff going on, so it's good to return to the basics.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.