Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I had everything I need to get me killed.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.