I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Many Christians live in a prison created by their own disobedience of Biblical Requirements.

If I love one lover, ...I have loved many more.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.