There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

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

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

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

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.