Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

Stars have their moments then they die.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

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

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.