"I hate to sing the same song the same way twice. If you can, then it ain't music."

"If you copy, it means you're working without any chief — without any chief of your own."

"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 got to be me, and I can't be nobody else."

"I never hurt anybody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."