You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

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

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.