I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself.

People should see genuine, authentic love in the church

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

I love chips and salsa. Guacamole.

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.