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

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones