Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

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.

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.