Misery is the River of the World

Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.