I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

no one bears witness for the witness