I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.