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

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

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

“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’. . . .”

“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.”

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