I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

If you keep doing what you have always done, your life will never change. Change your routine.

Creativity takes courage.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Problems come to our life not to give us pain, but to make us humble, kind, strong and fearless.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.