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Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

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

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

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

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

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

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

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

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees ...

This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

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

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out.
What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Is it time for your medication or mine?

You better lava me now or lava me not.

Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

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.

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

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

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

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Cheeseburger in paradise!

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.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

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

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Without geography you're nowhere.

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
...
"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around ...

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun ... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.

HOLY COW!
Wrinkles only go where smiles have been.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

With you, I would walk anywhere

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.