And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.

The most assured way of gaining maximum respect, is to permanently become a person of great honor.

Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

I'm a naughty sweetheart.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.