I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.