“You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.”

“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’. . . .”

“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.”

“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!”