Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Whenever you have good dreams never let it go, because dreams are seed which germinates result into fruitful tomorrow .

Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I’ll be what You want me to be. I’ll go where You want me to go.

Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.