Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.