I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

Before me even as behind God is and all is well.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

I was raised in the church.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

I am who I am; no more, no less.