It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

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