...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.