Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

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.

God gives much grace for great work.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.