I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Never look back; something is always gaining on you.

You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.