You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

People don't live or die, people just float.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.