I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies".

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.