I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

Funniness is genetic.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I consider myself a bassist first.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.