You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.

Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.