“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

“Even castles made of sand,fall into the sea,eventually.”

“If the mountains fell in the sea,Let it be, it ain't me.Got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,I don't mind, I don't mind.If all the hippies cut off their hair,I don't care, I don't care.Did, 'cos I got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you.”

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”