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.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

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

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

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

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.