Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

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.

If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

You've done what?" "I know," he said. "You're impressed. You send me out for bread and I come back with a boy. Well, not literally. That would be weird. Even for me.

I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Aristocracy is always cruel.