I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

Human beings are born of blood, bound by gravity, eventually to perish... fallible by design... destined.

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

It’s not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.