I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Never underestimate your fans; they'll tell you exactly what they like.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.