The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

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

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.