She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.