Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.

Love is for the weak!

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf?

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.