The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.