We love our lovin’….but not like we love our freedom.
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man…California, I’m comin’ home.
We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden
In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing
I’ve looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt’s life’s illusions I recallI really don’t know life at all
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man’s disrespect for nature.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
It’s in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie’s birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That’s why I like Charlie Parker.