I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

If it gets too bad, go. I’ll understand.” I won’t.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

It is your friends who make your world.