“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’. . . .”

“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.”

“If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”

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

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

“Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”

“Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.”