A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

If I think, everything is lost.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.