People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

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

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

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