I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

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.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

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

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

I love being a star more than life itself.