Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The fall takes no time and forever.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.