I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.

Life is short be helpful.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.