The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

Make a destination of the greater truth.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.