I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

The universe is unfolding as it should.

In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

Biography is the best form of history.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.