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

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

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

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.