I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.