I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

Love is lovelier The second time around.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

I have inflammation of the imagination.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

I just want everyone to know that even though Hogan won at Summerslam I still pinned him 1, 2, 3.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.