The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.

I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.

I like to play small clubs.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.