It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan. . . Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?
Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.
When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.
Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-
Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?