When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing of course you'll say you can't complain.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I always loved those little creatures [hummingbirds], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

I had a very messianic childhood.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon.

Please don't pass me by, oh please don't pass me by, for I am blind, but you can see, well, I've been blinded totally,.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!