“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all”

“She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been”

“I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...”

“And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.”

“All I've got to do today is smile.”

“I always get very calm with baseball.”

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me.”