The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.