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

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

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

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.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., March 9, 1998]

Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Without delayed gratification, there is no persistence.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.