If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.