It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

There are no impossible dreams.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.