We'll Laugh And Toast To Nothing, And

My Name Had Gone Stale, And No Matter How Progressive I Got, It Was My Time To Die.

The Blue Album, There’s Hardly A Dishonest Note In The Vocals. At That Period Of My Life, I Had No Personal Defenses. I Felt Like A Cellophane Wrapper On A Pack Of Cigarettes. I Felt Like I Had Absolutely No Secrets From The World And I Couldn’t Pretend In My Life To Be Strong. Or To Be Happy. But The Advantage Of It In The Music Was That There Were No Defenses There, Either.

Not To Dismiss Gershwin, But Gershwin Is The Chip; Ellington Was The Block.

I've Looked At Life From Both Sides Now...from Win And Lose, And Still Somehow It's Life's Illusions I Recall I Really Don't Know Life At All.

I Wrote 'big Yellow Taxi' On My First Trip To Hawaii. I Took A Taxi To The Hotel And When I Woke Up The Next Morning, I Threw Back The Curtains And Saw These Beautiful Green Mountains In The Distance. Then, I Looked Down And There Was A Parking Lot As Far As The Eye Could See, And It Broke My Heart This Blight On Paradise. That's When I Sat Down And Wrote The Song.