Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

It was her, something about her- whenever she did something that felt like a raw invitation, he simply went mad in his effort to take up the gauntlet.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are