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"You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets."
"Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud."
"Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs."
"You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can."
"The wise men were all fools, what to do?"
"You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down."
"Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying."
"I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I."
"I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly."
"I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart."
"I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath."
"When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac."
"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."
"In America everything's about who's number one today."
"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
"I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat."
"Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea."
"There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know."
"For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in."
"I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now."