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.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

My mother insisted that her children read.

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.