I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

I eat more chicken any man ever seen.

Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him, but I'd probably move. But I'm not gonna call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

I wear black all the time.

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.