You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

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

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

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

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

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