We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

Too much information about nothing.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.