Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.

I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.

I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them.

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all of the amazing, talented actors and crew that I know.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.