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.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.