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.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

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