God bless the child that's got his own.

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

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

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

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.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.