I Never Sing A Song The Same

If You Think Dope Is For Kicks And For Thrills, You're Out Of Your Mind. There Are More Kicks To Be Had In A Good Case Of Paralytic Polio Or By Living In An Iron Lung.

I Never Hurt Nobody But Myself And That's Nobody's Business But My Own.

You Can't Copy Anybody And End With Anything. If You Copy, It Means You're Working Without Any Real Feeling.

So I Asked Him To Play "trav'lin' All Alone." That Came Closer Than Anything To The Way I Felt. And Some Part Of It Must Have Come Across. The Whole Joint Quieted Down. If Someone Had Dropped A Pin, It Would Have Sounded Like A Bomb. When I Finished, Everybody In The Joint Was Crying In Their Beer, And I Picked Thirty-eight Bucks Up Off The Floor. . . . When I Showed Mom The Money For The Rent And Told Her I Had A Regular Job Singing For Eighteen Dollars A Week, She Could Hardly Believe It.

People Don't Understand The Kind Of Fight It Takes To Record What You Want To Record The Way You Want To Record It.