Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.