People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

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

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it