I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

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

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.