I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.