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.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

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