At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest.

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be.

At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.