Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.