On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

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.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.