Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.