“Hitchin' on a twilight train
Ain't nothing here that I care to take along.
Maybe a song
To sing when I want.
No need to say please to no man
For a happy tune.”

“Yo trippin'
There ain't nothing wrong with the way I sing my song
Yo trippin'
Why you feel that to be cruel is to be real.”

“To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.”

“And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”

“Please never say again that I wanted to be rid of Felix, I am getting frantic here … When I get out I 'want' Felix terribly, but I don't want to take him away from you.”

“By the winding stream we shall lie and dream
We'll make dreams come true if we want them to
Yes all will come play the pipes and drum
Sing a happy song and we'll sing along.”

“The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”