"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or somethin…"

"I've been called a lot of names in my life, but I've never been called a liar."

"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy beginnings."

"I'd rather be a junkie than a square."

"I never took a singing lesson in my life."