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

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

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

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

You got to get it while you can.

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.