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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.

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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.

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

Only The Good Die Young.

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

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

If You Could Only Hear What I Dream.

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

Unanswered Questions

She's Got A Smile That Heals Me.

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

Black And White

No End To Sorrow, Caused By The Same Endless Fears. Why Can't We Learn From All We've Been Through After Two Thousand Years?

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Advice Is Cheap; You Can Take It From Me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I Watched The Mighty Skyline Fall

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

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.

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

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

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

We're On The Verge Of All Things New.

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.

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

It Feels Great To Have A #1 Album.

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

You May Be Wrong, But You May Be Right.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I Would Say The Songs That Have Different Lyrics. I Always Write The Music First, And There's A Couple Of Songs On This Box Set That Have Different Lyrics From What Ended Up On The Final Recording.

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

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

We Passed The Hash Pipe And Played Our Doors Tapes.

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.

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.

All She Wanted Was Sax.

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.

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

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

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

You Can Pay Uncle Sam With All Your Overtime, Is That All You Get For Your Money?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sweetness Flows From Your Appearance And Your Beauty Makes Me Fall More In Love With You. Anytime I Feel Low, I Think About The Good Times You Have Given Me And Everything Seems Good Again.

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

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

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

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

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

My Songs Are Like My Kids.

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

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

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.

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."

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

I'm In A New York State Of Mind

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Lawrence Of Arabia

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Loving Yourself

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You Can Speak Your Mind But Not On My Time.

Speak Your Mind

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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 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."

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.

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.

I Definitely Prefer Being A Lover Than A Fighter.

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.

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

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

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

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 Know Why I Go To Extremes.

Critics Have Said I Write Without Spontaneity, In Cold Blood. I Don't. I Write In Hot Blood.

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

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.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Discount Outlet Merchandise...

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

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

You Only Beat Me If You Get Me To Hate.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Here I Am Starting A Franchise And I'm Gonna Be 65 Years Old. I Should've Started This In 1978... I Wrote Like 300 Songs And I'm Gonna Have To Re-learn Some Of Them!

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.

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

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.

Streetlife Serenaders Have No Obligations Hold No Grand Illusions Need No Stimulation.

You May Never Understand How The Stranger Is Inspired For He Is Not Always Evil, And He Is Not Always Wrong.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

Drank A Lot Of Take Home Pay.

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.

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

Making Mistakes

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

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

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

I've Crashed My Car Three Times.

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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