Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

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

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radio/record player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I'd never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.