I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.