There is nothing so stable as change.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

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

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

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

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.