When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

Oh my God I am so cool.

Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

We frolic while 'tis May.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.