A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.