I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

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.

Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.

I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.