At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.