The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.