If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

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

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

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.

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