“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”

“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”

“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”

“Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .”

“Half my life is in book's written pages.Live and learn from fools and from sages.”

“You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.”

“Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches!”