The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.
Justice is a fading light.
Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.
Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.
We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.
Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.