Music Quotes

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

I sell escapism.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.