Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.