Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.