All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

The things one wants the most, are not things after all.