Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

I don't really have a retirement plan.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.