I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

I touched you and my life stopped

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.