Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

Optimism is my best defense.

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.