Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

I'll call New York for some cash.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.