On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

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

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?