this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.