I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.