We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.