Art never comes from happiness.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

The best fighter is never angry.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.