When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.