Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

Everybody has their own soul.

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots