Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.