When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.