"When you bite off more than you can chew, you pay the penalty, somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me."

“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”

“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”

“If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares?”

“You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy...”

“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”