Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

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.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.