I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Talent is being able to please people.

Be the light that inspires others to dream.

Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.