Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

We go from most doubted to most respected with the right outlook and attitude to life.

My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence.

...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

Unhappy is a nice word.

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.