And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Education unlocks the greatest potential of the human mind.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

Adventures make one late for supper.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.