'I guess I'll call it sickness gone' - 'Ambulance Blues', referring to the drug related death of bandmate Danny Whitten

'If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key.' - 'The Last Trip to Tulsa'

'I have seen you in the movies, and in those magazines at night. I saw you on the barstool, when you held that glass so tight.' - 'Barstool Blues'

'What is the color when black is burned?' - 'I Am a Child'

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation t…

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of los…

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.