Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.