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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business.
but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.
The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.
I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.
Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.
I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.