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.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.