All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.
To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.
I live in a 9 million dollar turd.
Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody – thet’s my philosophy.
I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.
The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat’s head, let me tell you. It’s still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, ‘You’re the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?’ It happened f-king once, for Christ’s sake.
I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I’m no good. I can’t read.
There are no unlockable doors.
Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it’s not how you play the game, it’s if you win or lose, you can choose, don’t confuse, win or lose.
Everybody’s having fun, except me I’m the lonely one I live in shame.
I’d like to sing songs that are mellower. I don’t want to be screaming when I’m 60.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.
I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
Every shopaholic needs an accomplice.
Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
With marriage, you’ve just got to stick it out. You can’t jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.
I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.
I’m about caring, I’m about people, and I’m about entertaining people. I’m a family man. A husband. A father. I’ve been a lot of other things over the years, which we don’t really want to talk about.