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

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”

“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’. . . .”

“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”

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

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

“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.”