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“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”

"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”

“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

“I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way”

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”

Interview All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”

“The beginning of it starts at the end”

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when it should inspire and elevate.”

Interviewed by J. T. LeRoy, "Strange Innocence," Vanity Fair, July 2001

“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”

“You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.”

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”

"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).

“I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!”

Nighthawks at the Diner (1975).

“Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”

“when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans”

“It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.”

Interviewed on Fresh Air, 2002-05-21 http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=5-21-2002. <br class="br">Context: I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really— composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it. It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again. But when you live together, it makes it a lot easier, the pay back.

“Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah, I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart”

“Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.”

“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”

“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”

“and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming…”