I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.