When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

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.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

Life discoveries are lead by an acceptance of mistakes and efforts to correct them.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?