I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.