Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.