There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

I'm not a first-place person.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Money was their God; work their religion.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.