I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?