Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

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

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

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