My father probably thought the...

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I paint mostly from real life....

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

I believe that instinct is wha...

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

Peace is the time it takes to ...

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

I was headed for the fantastic...

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Everything passes, Everything ...

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

You had no faith to lose and y...

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Shakespeare's last play was ca...

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

People are going to say, 'Well...

People are going to say, 'Well, it's not very truthful.' But a songwriter doesn't care about what's truthful. What he cares about is what should've happened, what could've happened. That's its own kind of truth. It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

So happy just to be alive,

So happy just to be alive,
Underneath the sky of blue,
On this new morning, new morning,
On this new morning with you.

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Creativity has much to do with...

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Look out your window, and I'll...

Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on...

People think they know me from...

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Either I'm too sensitive, or e...

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

An artist has got to be consta...

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Everything in New Orleans is a...

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

Sometimes I wonder what it's g...

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

I hate myself for loving you a...

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

I am a restless soul hungry pe...

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

So, I don't know. I think so. ...

So, I don't know. I think so. It's all in the heart, whatever keeps you that way. Keeps you forever young. Forever young doesn't necessarily mean that you don't grow old, but you just have some contact with what put you where you are. You know, keep some type of contact. Anyway...