Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties.

In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.