"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."

"I don't think I'm a genius. I just sing the way I feel."

"The only thing I like about [fishing] is to sit in the boat and eat hot dogs and drink beer and scream when he catches a fish. And you hope that you don't catch any fish, no, I haven't, they wiggle to…"

"I've always been a loner."

"I'm not supposed to be a singer. I'm supposed to be a painter. I can paint, you know."