This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her, Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn, And tied her with fences and dragged her down.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

No, I wasn't really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before Sex Pistols were ever heard of. "The Thrasher" was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby Stills & Nash in the mid-'70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording "Powderfinger" before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs.