It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure..

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to di….

Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I….

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence..

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love….

...everything looks worse in black and white..

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses fr….

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go..

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry..

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies….

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio..

In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cri….

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains..

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away..

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets..

Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, y….

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with al….

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?.

All I've got to do today is smile..

Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon c….

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough..