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

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

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

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

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.

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

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