The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Well, what we know Is not what they tell us. We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I don't know how to change the world, but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody is going to clean it up.