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Do the steps that you've been shown,
by everyone you've ever known,
until the dance becomes your very own.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Any fool can sell a jewell -
an angel gives it away

It's just.... you know

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Please don't confront me with my failures
I have not forgotten them

Looking through a photograph I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Talk about celestial bodies.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

I'm going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehow

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Doctor, my eyes cannot see the sky. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own ... take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.

I never was a very good singer.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

They say it can't be won,
The way the game is run.
But if you choose to stay
You wind up playin' anyway.

No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.