Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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.

I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater.

Whatever is coming for me has already happened.

Love is as hard to hide as hate.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

People generally despise where they flatter.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.