See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.