Warren Zevon
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.Collection: Song
The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.Collection: Hurt
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.Collection: Song
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.Collection: Hero
It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.Collection: Girl
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.Collection: Errors
Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.Collection: Rejection
My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.Collection: Memories
Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.Collection: Long
Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.Collection: Night
LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.Collection: Dream
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.Collection: Running
Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.Collection: Friendship
Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.Collection: Family
I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.Collection: Two
I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.Collection: Fun
Regrets are so far from reality.Collection: Regret
You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.Collection: Work
I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.Collection: Bored
It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.Collection: Music Is
I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.Collection: School
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.Collection: Running
Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.Collection: Home
Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.Collection: Musical
Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.Collection: Jesus
I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.Collection: Drinking
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.Collection: Doctors
I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.Collection: Song
At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.Collection: Feet
We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.Collection: Hurt
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.Collection: Witty