I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.