It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

There are three things men can do with women

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art