They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

When I sing, people shut up.

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.