“Genealogists live in the past lane.”

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That’s how it can bend.

Music is a safe kind of high.

They’ve imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.

If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Music is my religion.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

Don’t waste your time thinkin’ about bad things.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Don’t let your imagination take you by surprise.

Anybody can do anything, it’s up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

A lover should be two things at once: the wild and a home.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

We don’t settle for a temporary home in anyone.

My only home are the daydreams I dream.