Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

The one who is not being born is dying.