At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

There are so many conditions to programming in America, where it's dominated by these people that own 800 radio stations that have no idea who to play and who not to play, and they listen to somebody or read somebody else's programming sheet and go by Buck Owens' opinion or something. Eight hundred stations are controlled by some guy that doesn't have a clue as to what to do about music.

I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.