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

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

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

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

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

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

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.