You can’t get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I’d want the best people and the best stuff.

Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master’s hand.

I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I’d give a ton of money to the ones I’ve hurt.

I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see.

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can’t help smiling, it’s you.