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

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

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.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

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.