A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!

I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

I got sick of the dough and thought I'd go on the loaf.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

A simple job for simple people.

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed moustache.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.