Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

She held up the pen and gave him a lazy grin. "It's a rose."He came close. "It's a pen." He tried to pluck it from her hand."You are seriously lacking in imagination.

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

I have also seen [Adolf] Hitler upset when they had been having words. He was not immune from being bothered or upset by their relationship.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.