I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

You gain strength every time you pray.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.