I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts but I never noticed.

As far as writing I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies it makes you think If that counts I certainly could write.

Somebody said to me this morning 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs the alcohol the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because as long as you have been in a movie that has made money you will always get another job.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

What counts is what you do with your money not where it came from.

After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.