He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.