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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.

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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.

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

I Think Music In Itself Is Healing. It's An Explosive Expression Of Humanity.

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

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.

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

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

And You Know That When The Truth Is Told That You Can Get What You Want Or You Can Just Get Old.

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

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.

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

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

I Watched The Mighty Skyline Fall

You Want To Give People A Reason To Hate My Guts More? I'm Making More Money.

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

I Don't Care What Consequence It Brings, I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things.

In An Age Of Incompetence, I've Been Able To Last In This Crazy Business. I Actually Know How To Play My Ax And Write A Song. That's My Job.

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.

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.

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

Black And White

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Only The Good Die Young.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I Never Said I Wasn't Going To Play Any More. I Don't Know Where That Came From.

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There Will Be Other Words Some Other Day; That Is The Story Of My Life.

Story Of My Life

I Have A Theory That The Only Original Things We Ever Do Are Mistakes.

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.

We All Have A Face That We Hide Away Forever, And We Take Them Out And Show Ourselves When Everyone Has Gone.

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.

There Are People Who Have Lost Every Trace Of Human Kindness.

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... 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. And So It Goes, And So It Goes. And You're The Only One Who Knows.

Some Love Is Just A Lie Of The Heart, The Cold Remains Of What Began With A Passionate Heart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In Hell There's A Big Hotel Where The Bar Just Closed And The Windows Never Opened. No Phone So You Can't Call Home, And The Tv Works, But The Clicker Is Broken.

Drank A Lot Of Take Home Pay.

Working Too Hard Can Give You A Heart-attack.

Maybe This Won't Last Very Long But You Feel So Right And I Could Be Wrong. Maybe I've Been Hoping Too Hard. I've Gone This Far And It's More Than I Hope For.

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

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

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.

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

This Is The Time To Remember Cause It Will Not Last Forever. These Are The Days To Hold Onto Cause We Won't Although We'll Want To.

Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That All Her Dreams Are Sweet? Said Now, Would Ya Guide Her On The Roads, And Make Them Softer For Her Feet? Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That She's Gonna Be Alright, Until She's Home And Here With Me.

I Believe There Is A Time For Meditation In Cathedrals Of Our Own.

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

Hot Funk, Cold Punk, Even If It's Old Junk, It's Still Rock And Roll To Me.

They Say That These Are Not The Best Of Times, But They're The Only Times I've Ever Known.

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

I'm A Piano Player. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Singer, At All. I Was Always Trying To Sound Like Somebody Else. I Don't Like My Own Voice, I Like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I Like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, People That Have An Edge In Their Voice.

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.

You Only Beat Me If You Get Me To Hate.

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

Forced To Recognize Our Inhumanity, Our Reason Coexists With Our Insanity. And Though We Choose Between Reality And Madness, It's Either Sadness Or Euphoria.

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

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.

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

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 Am No Longer Afraid Of Becoming Lost, Because The Journey Back Always Reveals Something New, And That Is Ultimately Good For The Artist.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We Passed The Hash Pipe And Played Our Doors Tapes.

Do What You Love, And You'll Always Love What You Do

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.

There's Nothing Better Than Good Sex. But Bad Sex? A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Is Better Than Bad Sex.

Like A Boxer In A Title Fight, You Have To Walk In That Ring Alone.

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

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

When I First Started I Didn't Know A Lot About The Job, So I Kinda Had To Figure It Out By Wire, Ya Know? It Was Hit And Miss, I Made Mistakes, And Fortunately I Was Able To Recover From Most Of 'em. But I Promised Myself If I Ever Get To A Point Where I Can Help Somebody That's Trying To Learn How To Do This, That I Would Try To Do That.

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.

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

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

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

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

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

I'm Sure You Have Some Cosmic Rationale, But Here You Are With Your Faith And Your Peter Pan Advice.

Well We're Waiting Here In Allentown For The Pennsylvania We Never Found For The Promises Our Teachers Gave If We Worked Hard If We Behaved So The Graduations Hang On The Wall But They Never Really Helped Us At All No They Never Taught Us What Was Real

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

I Don't Know Why I Go To Extremes.

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.

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.

All She Wanted Was Sax.

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?

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.

If You Are Not Doing What You Love, You Are Wasting Your Time.

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.

I Really Wish I Was Less Of A Thinking Man And More Of A Fool Not Afraid Of Rejection.

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

They Are Sharing A Drink Called Loneliness.

She Can Kill With Her Smile, She Can Wound With Her Eyes.

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

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

Musicians Now Find Themselves In The Unlikely Position Of Being Legitimate. At Least The Irs Thinks So.

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

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

Making Mistakes

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.

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

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

Loving Yourself

I Said I Love You And That's Forever And This I Promise From The Heart I Could Not Love You Any Better I Love You Just The Way You Are.

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

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

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 Was Listening To Stuff And I Realized That I've Had A Lot Of Different Lives. You Know The Theory [that Says] Every Seven Years, You Have A Different Life? I Think That's True.

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

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.

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

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

'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.

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

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

Some People Find It's Easier To Hate.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

First Impression

I'm Single But Interviewing.

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.

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.

I Keep Telling People: Don't Make Me The Poster Boy For Aa Because I Don't Know A Lot About Sobriety, But I Do Know A Lot About Drinking.

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

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's Got A Smile That Heals Me.

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.

You Can Linger Too Long In Your Dreams.

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.

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

We Might Be Laughing A Bit Too Loud, But That Never Hurt No One

You Can’t Go The Distance With Too Much Resistance

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.

As An Atheist You Have To Rationalize Things... Then You Have To Try And Make Some Sort Of Sense Out Of Your Problems. And If You Try And Find You Can't, You Have No Choice But To Be Good And Scared -- But That's Okay!

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

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

Unanswered Questions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I May Be An Antique Like The Stones, But Antiques Are Valuable.

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

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.

The Whole World Loves American Movies, Blue Jeans, Jazz And Rock And Roll. It Is Probably A Better Way To Get To Know Our Country Than By What Politicians Or Airline Commercials Represent.

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.

Don't Make Music For Some Vast, Unseen Audience Or Market Or Ratings Share Or Even For Something As Tangible As Money. Though It's Crucial To Make A Living, That Shouldn't Be Your Inspiration. Do It For Yourself.

I'm In A New York State Of Mind

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

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

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

Videos Destroyed The Vitality Of Rock And Roll. Before That, Music Said, "listen To Me." Now It Says, "look At Me."

There Was Only Really One Accident That Was Kinda Bad But It Was Nothing To Do With Booze, Just Bad Luck... I Was Having A Hard Time A Couple Of Years Ago... I'm A Good Driver, I Just Had Bad Luck.

Most People You'd Tell "i'm Gonna Be A Musician," They'd Say, "you're Crazy, You're Gonna Starve, You're Gonna Be Poor, A Drug Addict, Go To Jail, You'll Never Make It, There's Too Much Competition, It's A Terrible Business," Etc. But My Chorus Teacher In High School Said, "you've Got What It Takes To Be A Really Good Professional Musician, You Should Consider It." That Was An Epiphany For Me. So I Thought, Well, Maybe I Can Help Somebody, Too.

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

Someday We'll All Be Gone, But Lullabies Go On And On / They Never Die, That's How You And I Will Be

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

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.

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

Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Lawrence Of Arabia

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm Probably Writing Music Now For The Same Reason As I Started Writing Songs When I Was 14 - To Meet Women.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

Rock And Roll Just Used To Be For Kicks, Now A Days It's Politics.

You Can Speak Your Mind But Not On My Time.

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I'm A Statistic In A System That A Civil Servant Dominates.

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