I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Simplicate, and add lightness!