My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.