Thank God for unanswered prayers.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.