Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

You can't put this possum in a cage

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.