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I've Written A Bunch Of Stuff That No One's Ever Heard, And I Don't Know If They Ever Will. I'm Just Doing It For My Own Edification.

Say Goodbye To The Oldies, But Goodies, Because The Good Old Days Weren't Always Good And Tomorrow Ain't As Bad As It Seems

You've Got Your Passion. You've Got Your Pride. But Don't You Know That Only Fools Are Satisfied? Dream On, But Don't Imagine They'll All Come True.

Where Have You Been Hanging Out Lately Honey? You Can't Dress Trashy 'til You Spend A Lot Of Money.

Oh, She Takes Care Of Herself. She Can Wait If She Wants. She's Ahead Of Her Time. Oh, And She Never Gives Out. And She Never Gives In. She Just Changes Her Mind.

Why Should I Worry, Why Should I Care? And Even When I Cross That Line, I Got Street Savoire Faire.

I'm Carrying The Weight Of All The Useless Junk And Modern Man Accumulates.

Hope You Don't Think This Is Billy Joel Unplugged. I'm A Piano Player. I'm Already Unplugged.

I Think Historically America Has Been Pretty Tolerant. It Seems When There's A Mass Influx From One Place, That's When It Becomes Problematic For Americans.

I Look In The Mirror And Think, 'i Don't Look Like A Rock Star.' I Talked About This With Bono And We Looked At Each Other And Decided We Look Like A Pair Of Bricklayers.

If You Could Only Hear What I Dream.

You Can Speak Your Mind But Not On My Time.

Speak Your Mind

Usually When I'm Writing, I Try To Write Fairly Quickly. If A Song Sits Around Too Long, It Starts To Take On A Stink. Most Of My Songs Are Written In One Sitting, Two Sittings Maybe. Those Are The Ones I Like The Best, Anyway.

Don't Go Changing, To Try And Please Me You Never Let Me Down Before.

If You Search For Truthfulness, You Might As Well Be Blind.

I Took A Fresh Pack Of Luckies, A Mint Called Sen-sen, My Old Man's Trojans.

I'm In A New York State Of Mind

Honesty Is Such A Lonely Word. Everyone Is So Untrue.

I Was Thinking Of The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, And When I Was Thinking "uptown Girl!" I Was Trying To Sing Like Frankie Valli. They Had A Song Called "ragdoll," Which Was About A Poor Girl And A Rich Guy. So I Just Flipped It Around And Made It About A Rich Girl And A Poor Guy.

I Look At Some Of The Songs I Wrote Years Ago And I Can't Believe I Wrote Such Crap.

Historically, Musicians Know What It Is Like To Be Outside The Norm - Walking The High Wire Without A Safety Net. Our Experience Is Not So Different From Those Who March To The Beat Of Different Drummers.

I'm Not The Kind Of Guy Who Wants To Be On A Pedestal.

I Am The Entertainer And I Know Just Where I Stand Another Serenader And Another Long Haired Band Today I Am Your Champion, I May Have Won Your Hearts, But I Know The Game, You'll Forget My Name, And I Won't Be Here In Another Year If I Don't Stay On The Charts.

I Work With Musicians Whose Opinions I Respect And If They Don't Like Something They Don't Hold Back. They'll Say, 'that Really Sucks' And 'you've Lost It' And 'you're No Good Anymore.' And I Crawl Away With My Tail Between My Legs And I Fear That Kind Of Ridicule, But I Want Them To Like The Music I'm Bringing To Them.

I Was Drawn To Boxing Because I Got Beat Up As A Kid. I Was The Kid With The Piano Books In A New York Neighbourhood.

I Once Believed In Causes, Too. Had My Pointless Point Of View. Life Went On No Matter Who Was Wrong Or Right.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time Although It's So Romantic On The Borderline Tonight Too Bad But It's The Life You Lead You're So Ahead Of Yourself That You Forfeit What You Need Though You Can See When You're Wrong

I've Come To Realize That Life Is Not A Musical Comedy, It's A Greek Tragedy.

People Always Think I Was Just Playing In A Piano Bar, But I Only Did That For About Six Months. The Rest Of The Time I Was Playing In Bands.

Some People Stay Away From The Door For The Chance Of It Opening Up.

So You Play Your Albums And You Smoke Your Pot And You Meet Your Girlfriend In The Parking Lot Oh, But Still You're Aching For The Things You Haven't Got, What Went Wrong? And If You Can't Understand Why Your World Is So Dead And Why You've Got To Keep In Style And Feed Your Head Well, You're Twenty One And Still You Mother Makes Your Bed And That's Too Long.

Do What's Good For You Or You're Not Good For Anybody

If You Said Good-bye To Me Tonight, There Would Still Be Music Left To Write.

It Should Be Easy For A Man Who's Strong To Say He's Sorry Or Admit When He's Wrong.

I've Played All Kinds Of Places, Laid All Kinds Of Girls.

Streetlife Serenader Never Sang On Stages, Needs No Orchestration, Melody Comes Easy, Need No Vast Arrangement To Do Their Harmonizing.

And So My Child And I Came To This Place To Meet Him Eye To Eye And Face To Face. He Made My Daughter Laugh, Then We Embraced. We Never Knew What Friends We Had, Until We Came To Leningrad.

Working Too Hard Can Give You A Heart-attack.

Dream On, But Don't Imagine They'll All Come True. When Will You Realize... Vienna Waits For You.

Why Do Musicians Give So Much Time To Charitable Causes? The Most Humanitarian Cause That We Can Give Our Time To Is The Creation And Performance Of Music Itself.

From A Town Known As Wheeling, West Virginia Rode A Boy With A Six-gun In His Hand And His Daring Life Of Crime Made Him A Legend In His Time East And West Of The Rio Grande. Well, He Started With A Bank In Colorado In The Pocket Of His Vest A Colt He Hid. And His Age And His Size Took The Teller By Surprise, And The Word Spread Of Billy The Kid.

I've Reached The Age Where Competence Is A Turn-on.

Only The Good Die Young.

A Typical Day In The Life Of A Heavy Metal Musician Consists Of A Round Of Golf And An Aa Meeting.

It's Alright, You Can Afford To Lose A Day Or Two

It's Nine O'clock On A Saturday, The Regular Crowd Shuffles In / There's An Old Man Sitting Next To Me Making Love To His Tonic And Gin / He Says, 'son, Can You Play Me A Memory?/ I'm Not Really Sure How It Goes / But It's Sad And It's Sweet, And I Knew It Complete When I Wore A Younger Man's Clothes.'

We Are Living In A Time When American Popular Music Is Finally Being Recognized As One Of Our Most Successful Exports. The Demand Is Huge.

I Can't Remember Faces, Don't Remember Names, But After Awhile And A Thousand Miles It All Becomes The Same.

I Compare Songwriting To Childbirth. How Many Kids Can You Have Before Your Uterus Explodes?

If I Traveled All My Life And I Never Get To Stop And Settle Down Long As I Have You By My Side There's A Roof Above And Good Walls All Around You're My Castle, You're My Cabin And My Instant Pleasure Dome I Need You In My House 'cause You're My Home.

I See The Children With Their Boredom And Their Vacant Stares.

If I Ever Reach Heaven I Expect To Find Three Wonders There: First, To Meet Some I Had Not Thought To See There; Second, To Miss Some I Had Expected To See There; And Third, The Greatest Wonder Of All, To Find Myself There.

What Will It Take For You To Believe In Me, The Way That I Believe In You?

You've Got Yoga, I've Got Beer. You Got Overpriced, I Got Weird.

You Get Paid Like A Really Good Call Girl. Walking Offstage Is Like The Walk Of Shame.

I Never Stopped Writing Music, I Just Stopped Writing Songs. I've Been Writing Music Continually Ever Since The Last Album Of Original Tunes, "river Of Dreams" In '93.

I've Passed The Age Of Consciousness And Righteous Rage. I Found That Just Surviving Was A Noble Fight.

More Than Art, More Than Literature, Music Is Universally Accessible.

Life Is A Series Of Hellos And Goodbyes; I'm Afraid It's Time For Goodbye Again

I Hope It Does Not Take The Rest Of My Life Until I Find What It Is I've Been Looking For.

She's Got A Smile That Heals Me.

Rock And Roll Cola Wars, I Can't Take It Any More.

No Matter What Culture You're From, Everyone Loves Music.

They Are Sharing A Drink Called Loneliness.

We All End In The Ocean. We All Start In The Streams. We're All Carried Along, By The River Of Dreams.

I Always Thought Of Myself As The Piano Player In The Band. That, I Suppose, I'm Confident About, And I Guess My Songwriting Developed As I Went Along And I Got A Certain Amount Of Confidence In That. The Songs Are Like My Kids, I'm Proud Of All Of Them For One Reason Or Another.

I Believe That All Important Matters Have To Be Settled Here, Not In The Clouds Somewhere After We Kick Off.

I Sold My House To Jerry Seinfeld.

I Consider Myself To Be An Inept Pianist, A Bad Singer, And A Merely Competent Songwriter. ... I'm Probably Writing Music Now For The Same Reason As I Started Writing Songs When I Was 14-to Meet Women. ... If You Make Music For The Human Needs You Have Within Yourself, Then You Do It For All Humans Who Need The Same Things. You Enrich Humanity With The Profound Expression Of These Feelings. ... My Songs Are Like My Kids.

There's Always A Place For The Angry Young Man With His Fist In The Air And His Head In The Sand. He's Never Been Able To Learn From Mistakes, He Can't Understand Why His Heart Always Breaks.

Call Me A Joker, Call Me A Fool, Right At This Moment I'm Totally Cool.

'our Parents' Generation Had It A Lot Tougher Than We Did. They Had To Live Through The Depression, World War Ii, And Then They Had To, You Know, Try To Pick Up The Pieces Of Their Lives And Bring Up Their Children. And, It Was A Great Example For Us. I Guess We Grew Up With A Certain Amount Of The Ethics Our Parents Had, Which Is, You Know: Work Hard, Make Your Own Way, Be Independent.

I'm Writing For The Sake Of Writing Music. Whether It Gets Heard Or Not Isn't An Issue For Me. It Keeps My Own Juices Going And My Mind Active.

When I Was A Young Musician, The Only Option Available To Pursue Secondary Education In Music Was To Attend A Classical Conservatory.

I Definitely Prefer Being A Lover Than A Fighter.

Don't Wait For Answers, Just Take Your Chances. Don't Ask Me Why.

The Joy Of Life Is Made Up Of Obscure And Seemingly Mundane Victories That Give Us Our Own Small Satisfactions.

Out Of Respect For The Things That I Was Never Destined To Do, I Have Learned That My Strengths Are A Result Of My Weaknesses, My Success Is Due To My Failures, And My Style Is Directly Related To My Limitations.

I Always Wrote The Music First, And The Music Gave Me The Mood And The Lyrics Were Pretty Much Put In To Give You A Map, Where That Mood Came From And Where It's Going. But My First Love Was Really The Music Itself, And I Guess I've Gone Back To That.

I Don't Belong In Limos Or Private Jets Or On Stage With People Cheering Me But That's What's Kept Me Grounded Because I Know It's Not Right.

I've Always Said About 50% Of What Happens At A Concert Has To Do With The Audience. If You Play For A Dead Audience You're Gonna Stink. If We Play For A Great Crowd We're Much Better. You Want 'em To Make Noise. It's Kinda Like Sex, If They Don't Make Noise, You Ain't Doin' It Right.

Sergeant O'leary Is Walking The Beat, At Night He Becomes A Bar Tender.

My Songs Are Like My Kids.

Twyla Tharp Put It Together From The Material I Wrote And Recorded Over My Whole Career. I Thought It Was Pretty Good, But How Objective Could I Be?

I Always Hated My Hair, So Now It's Going Away.

I Tell The Audience Every Night, "i Hope You Didn't Pay More Than Face Value On That Ticket, Because We Ain't Worth More Than That, And You Ain't Gonna Get Any More Than That."

Every Child Had A Pretty Good Shot, To Get At Least As Far As Their Old Man Got. But Something Happened On The Way To That Place. They Threw An American Flag In Our Face.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time.

You Should Never Argue With A Crazy Mind, You Ought To Know My Now.

You're Having A Hard Time And Lately You Don't Feel So Good; You're Getting A Bad Reputation In Your Neighborhood. It's Alright, It's Alright; Sometimes That's What It Takes. You're Only Human, You're Allowed To Make Your Share Of Mistakes.

Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Lawrence Of Arabia

Everybody Is Different. Some Writers Can Write Reams Of Great Books And Then J. D. Salinger Wrote Just A Few. Beethoven Wrote Nine Symphonies. They Were All Phenomenal. Mozart Wrote Some 40 Symphonies, And They Were All Phenomenal. That Doesn't Mean Beethoven Was A Lesser Writer, It's Just Some Guys Are Capable Of More Productivity, Some Guys Take More Time.

I Believe I've Passed The Age Of Consciousness And Righteous Rage. I've Found That Just Surviving Is A Noble Fight. I Once Believed In Causes Too; I Had My Pointless Points Of View. And Life Went On No Matter Who As Wrong Or Right.

In A Way, We Are Magicians. We Are Alchemists, Sorcerers And Wizards. We Are A Very Strange Bunch. But There Is Great Fun In Being A Wizard.

I'm Writing New Music All The Time. I'm Just Not Writing Pop Stuff. It's Not My Goal.

And The Only People I Fear Are Those Who Never Have Doubts... Save Us All From Arrogant Men, And All The Causes They're For.

Some Folks Like To Get Away Take A Holiday From The Neighborhood. Hop A Flight To Miami Beach Or To Hollywood But I'm Talking A Greyhound On The Hudson River Line. I'm In A New York State Of Mind.

This Is Our Moment, Here At The Cross-roads Of Time. Time Is Relentless And As The Past Dissappears, We're On The Verge Of All Things New.

I Have To Thank My Mother For Paying For The Piano Lessons For All Those Years.

You Just Sit Home And Masturbate. The Phone Is Going To Ring Soon, But You Just Can't Wait.

The Biggest Regret? This May Be One Of Those Years I Have No Regrets.

We Didn't Start The Fire It Was Always Burning Since The World's Been Turning We Didn't Start The Fire No We Didn't Light It But We Tried To Fight It

You're Not The Only One Who's Made Mistakes, But They're The Only Things That You Can Truly Call Your Own.

The Happiest Times In My Life Were When My Relationships Were Going Well - When I Was In Love With Someone, And Someone Was Loving Me. But In My Whole Life, I Haven't Met The Person I Can Sustain A Relationship With Yet. So I'm Discontented About That. I'm Angry With Myself. I Have Regrets.

For Whatever Reason, Not All People Are Born With The Particular Gift Of Being Able To Express Ourselves Through Music. And, Believe Me, It Is A Gift.

We Drown Our Doubts In Dry Champagne And Soothe Our Souls With Fine Cocaine. I Don't Know Why I Even Care, We Get So High And Get Nowhere.

She's Got A Way About Her, And Everywhere She Goes, A Million Dreams Of Love Surround Her, Everywhere.

Let Me Go On Sleeping And I Will Lose Myself In Palaces Of Sand, And All The Fantasies That I've Been Keeping Will Make The Empty Hours Easier To Stand.

I Think Music In Itself Is Healing. It's An Explosive Expression Of Humanity. It's Something We Are All Touched By. No Matter What Culture We're From, Everyone Loves Music.

I've Crashed My Car Three Times.

I've Lived Long Enough To Have Learned, The Closer You Get To The Fire, The More You Get Burned.

Like Family, We Are Tied To Each Other. This Is What All Good Musicians Understand.

I Have Long Admired Steinway Pianos For Their Qualities Of Tone, Clarity, Pitch Consistency, Touch Responsiveness, And Superior Craftsmanship.

Those Who Have Expressed Doubts And Misgivings About Their Ability To Live This Kind Of Life Shouldn't Try, Because Being A Musician Is Not Something You Chose To Be, It Is Something You Are.

Artist - Musicians, Painters, Writers, Poets, Always Seem To Have Had The Most Accurate Perception Of What Is Really Going On Around Them, Not The Official Version Or The Popular Perception Of Contemporary Life.

I Guess Some People In Classical Music Can Keep Going Until They Kick (die) And The (rolling) Stones Are Definitely Pushing The Envelope But I Wonder If Here's A Time When You Have To Face Whether You Are As Good As You Used To Be.

Though You Can See When You're Wrong, You Know You Can't Always See When You're Right.

If You're A Very Unfulfilled Person You Might Have A Tendency To Turn To Crime.

Know What You Love And Do What You Love. If You Don't Do What You Love, You're Just Wasting Your Time.

Wasting Your Time

In Every Heart There Is A Room, A Sanctuary Safe And Strong, To Heal The Wounds From Lovers Past, Until A New One Comes Along

I'm Kind Of Putting My Toe Back In The Water And Seeing How It Feels. We're Going To Be Doing Stuff We Haven't Done For Years And Years And Years. So I'm Looking Forward To Seeing How This Stuff Flies.

You've Got To Be Hard, Like The Rock In That Old Rock & Roll.

I Consider Myself To Be An Inept Pianist, A Bad Singer, And A Merely Competent Songwriter. What I Do, In My Opinion, Is By No Means Extraordinary.

There's A Place In The World For The Angry Young Man With His Working Class Ties And His Radical Plans He Refuses To Bend, He Refuses To Crawl He's Always At Home With His Back To The Wall And He's Proud Of His Scars And The Battles He's Lost And He Struggles And Bleeds As He Hangs On The Cross And He Likes To Be Known As The Angry Young Man.

So I Would Choose To Be With You, That's If The Choice Were Mine To Make, But You Can Make Decisions Too, And You Can Have This Heart To Break

I Started Just Concentrating On Songwriting When I Was Abut 20; I'd Been In Rock Bands Six Or Seven Years, Kinda Got That Out Of My System, I Said, "ok, You Ain't Gonna Be A Rock Star, You Don't Look Like A Rock Star, It Probably Ain't Gonna Happen. So What You Should Do Is Write Songs And Maybe Other People Will Do Your Songs."

I See The Winos Talking To Themselves And I Can Understand.

Take Risks. Take Chances. Don't Be Afraid. You Gotta Go Into Life Brave.

Following A Code Of Silence, You're Never Gonna Lose The Anger.

You'll Learn More From Your Accidents Than Anything That You Could Ever Learn At School.

Even When I Stop Performing Or Stop Making Records I Won't Stop Being Creative. Songwriting Is A Good Outlet.

You Look So Polished From Your Hair Down To Your Toes, But Still Your Finger's Gonna Pick Your Nose.

I Would Not Leave You In Your Times Of Trouble. We Never Could Have Come This Far. I Took The Good Times, I'll Take The Bad Times, I'll Take You Just The Way You Are.

I Am, As I've Said, Merely Competent. But In An Age Of Incompetence, That Makes Me Extraordinary.

So Many Faces In And Out Of My Life Some Will Last Some Will Be Just Now And Then. Life Is A Series Of Hellos And Goodbyes I'm Afraid It's Time For Goodbye Again. Say Goodbye To Hollywood Say Goodbye My Baby Say Goodbye To Hollywood Say Goodbye My Baby.

You May Be Right, I May Be Crazy, But It Just Might Be A Lunatic You're Looking For

Ain't No Rainbows Shining On Me, Shades Of Gray Are The Colors I See.

Black And White Is How It Should Be, But Shades Of Grey Are The Colors I See.

Black And White

Sing Us A Song You're The Piano Man. Sing Us A Song Tonight. Cause We're All In The Mood For A Melody, And You've Got Us Feeling All Right.

They Say That No One's Gonna Play This On The Radio. They Said The Melancholy Blues Were Dead And Gone. But Only Songs Like These Played In Minor Keys, Keep Those Memories Holding On.

When I Was 19, I Made My First Good Week's Pay As A Club Musician. It Was Enough Money For Me To Quit My Job At The Factory And Still Pay The Rent And Buy Some Food. I Freaked.

Well I Never Had A Place That I Could Call My Very Own/that's All Right, My Love, 'cause You're My Home.

It's A Little Intimidating To Walk Into A Studio And Know That You're Going To Sing A Duet With Barbra Streisand.

Yes, They're Sharing A Drink They Call Loneliness But It's Better Than Drinkin' Alone.

There's A Deep-seated Paranoia That Americans Have About Not Being Americans Or Something.

Musicians Want To Be The Loud Voice For So Many Quiet Hearts.

I'm A Cosmopolitan Sophisticate Of Culture And Intelligence. The Culmination Of Technology And Civilized Experience.

So Before We End And Then Begin We'll Drink A Toast To How It's Been A Few More Hours To Be Complete A Few More Nights On Satin Sheets A Few More Times That I Can Say, I've Loved These Days.

When I See An Entire Community Disenfranchised, It Disturbs Me. Not That I'm A Message Guy, Per Se. I Write About People. I Like To Write About Human Beings, Not Crap Political Rhetoric. I've Tried To Avoid That All My Life. When I Wrote About Soldiers In Vietnam, I Wasn't Trying To Make A Political Statement. I Was Trying To Write About How Screwed Things Were For Soldiers, And How They Still Are.

When I Look At Great Works Of Art Or Listen To Inspired Music, I Sense Intimate Portraits Of The Specific Times In Which They Were Created.

I'm Single But Interviewing.

You May Be Wrong, But You May Be Right.

I Had A Melody And A Rhythm And Chords, But Nothing To Talk About. I Remember Reading About How The Decline Of The Steel Industry Had Been Affecting The Lehigh Valley, And I Decided That's What I Was Going To Write The Song About.

I Always Wanted To Try To Be A Teacher Even Before I Was In The Music Business. I Liked History, And Good Teachers Made An Impact On Me.

As Long As There Are Memories, Yesterday Remains. As Long As There Is Hope, Tomorrow Awaits. As Long As There Is Friendship, Today Is Beautiful.

...and You're The Only One Who Knows.

Morning Inspirational

My Love For You

Some Of The Stuff I'm Writing Is Almost Like Hymns, Some Of My First Singing And Choral Experiences Were In Church, The Church Of Christ In Hicksville.

I'm Not Sure About Life After This; God Knows I'm Not A Spiritual Man.

I Didn't Graduate High School, So I Never Got A Teacher's Education, I'm Mostly Self-read, Self-taught. I Always Loved Music, So I Would Probably Either Be In A Band With Another Group Of People, Or An Arranger, A Producer, A Musicologist, A Music History Guy, Something To Do With Music. Either That, Or I Would Probably Be In Jail. Or Dead.

There Ain't Much Future For A Man Who Works The Sea, There Ain't No Island Left For Islanders Like Me.

Move To California - My First Impression Of The Wild West.

First Impression

What If She Figures Out You're Not Very Smart?

Unanswered Questions

She's The Quiet Type Who's Into Heavy Metal.

Every Time I've Held A Rose, It Seems I Only Felt The Thorns

You Can’t Go The Distance With Too Much Resistance

It's Really Hard To Make A Living As A Musician. It's Almost Impossible.

Give A Moment Or Two To The Angry Young Man With His Foot In His Mouth And His Heart In His Hand.

She'll Carelessly Cut You And Laugh While You're Bleeding.

I Started Taking Piano Lessons When I Was About Four Years Old. My Parents Were Both Musicians. So I Took Piano Lessons. I Didn't Like The Lessons Very Much, But I Was Enchanted By Music. Music Always Transported Me Somewhere. Singing Made Feel Good And Being Able To Play The Piano Made Me Feel Good.

We're Only Human, We're Supposed To Make Mistakes.

Making Mistakes

People Pay A Lot Of Money To Go See Shows Now, They Don't Wanna Know About Your Technical Problems, Or If You're Not Feeling Good, They Don't Wanna Know We Have A Glitch. It's Their Night, You Better Do Something To Earn That Money.

There's An Old Man Sitting Next To Me, Making Love To His Tonic And Gin.

I Won't Be Righteous Again. I'm Not Sure Anymore.

I Did Write A Letter To The Archdiocese Who'd Banned The Song, Only The Good Die Young, Asking Them To Ban My Next Record.

The Graduations Hang On The Wall, But They Never Really Helped Us At All.

It's Ok If You Mess Up. You Should Give Yourself A Break.

Loving Yourself

My Friends And I Are Crazy. That's The Only Thing That Keeps Us Sane!

If I Need A Cause For Celebration, Or A Comfort I Can Use To Ease My Mind, I Rely On My Imagination, And I Dream Of An Imaginary Time.

Don't Be Afraid To Try Again Everyone Goes South Every Now And Then.

You Can Walk Away From Your Mistakes You Can Turn Your Back On What You Do Just A Little Smile Is All It Takes And You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too. Loneliness Will Get To You Somehow But Ev'rybody Loves You Now.

I Have Been Both Praised And Criticized. The Criticism Stung, But The Praise Sometimes Bothered Me Even More. To Have Received Such Praise And Honors Has Always Been Puzzling To Me.

Honesty Is The Best Part Of Any Art Form. If You Don't Have That, You're Kidding Yourself And Your Listener.

My Daughter Sent Me On A Mission To Get As Many Autographs As Possible.

They Say There's A Heaven For Those Who Wait, Some Say It's Better I Say It Ain't.

Don't Go Changing To Try And Please Me You Never Let Me Down Before Don't Imagine You're Too Familiar And I Don't See You Anymore I Would Not Leave You In Times Of Trouble We Never Could Have Come This Far I Took The Good Times, I'll Take The Bad Times I'll Take You Just The Way You Are Don't Go Trying Some New Fashion Don't Change The Color Of Your Hair. [...] I Could Not Love You Any Better I Love You Just The Way You Are.

I Am The Entertainer, I've Come To Do My Show You've Heard My Latest Record, It's Been On The Radio It Took Me Years To Write It, They Were The Best Years Of My Life It Was A Beautiful Song But It Ran Too Long If You're Gonna Have A Hit You Gotta Make It Fit So They Cut It Down To 3:05.

If It Seems Like I've Been Lost In 'lets Remember', If It Seems I'm Gettin' Older And Missin' My Younger Days, Well You Shoulda Known Me Much Better, Cause The Past Is Something That Never Got In My Way.

I Don't Want Clever Conversation, I Never Want To Work That Hard, I Just Want Someone I Can Talk To, I Want You Just The Way You Are.

People In Music Lie, But They Don't Expect You To Believe Them. People In Television Actually Expect You To Believe The Lies.

They Say That These Are Not The Best Of Times, But They're The Only Times I've Ever Known. And I Believe There Is A Time For Meditation In Cathedrals Of Our Own. Now I Have Seen That Sad Surrender In My Lovers Eyes...and I Can Only Stand Apart And Sympathize...for We Are Only What Our Situations Hand Us...it's Either Sadness Or Euphoria.

Your Mother Told You All That I Could Give You Was A Reputation.

Have You Listened To The Radio Lately? Have You Heard The Canned, Frozen And Processed Product Being Dished Up To The World As American Popular Music Today?

We're On The Verge Of All Things New.

I'd Rather Laugh With The Sinners Than Cry With The Saints - The Sinners Are Much More Fun.

If You Tell Kids They Can't Have Something, That's What They Want.

You've Given Me The Best Of You, But Now I Need The Rest Of You.

I Run Into People From The Lehigh Valley And Allentown All Over The World, And They're Obviously Doing Pretty Well. They Say, "oh, It's Pretty Nice There Now And There's A Lot Of New Businesses That Have Come Into The Area." Nobody's Telling Me, "yeah, I Left." Everybody Says, "you Know, I'm There. It's Great. It's Really Nice There, And You Made Our Town Famous."

She Can Kill With A Smile. She Can Wound With Her Eyes. She Can Ruin Your Faith With Her Casual Lies. And She Only Reveals What She Wants You To See. She Hides Like A Child, But She's Always A Woman To Me.

Some People Stay Far Away From The Door If There's A Chance Of It Opening Up. They Hear A Voice In The Hall Outside And Hope That It Just Passes By.

There Will Be Miracles After The Last War Is Won Science And Poetry Rule In The New World To Come Prophets And Angels Gave Us The Power To See What An Amazing Future There Will Be

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