I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren't & can't. You have to win

We'll have all night for slow and sweet, " she said softly. "But right now, I really want that hard and fast you mentioned earlier.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.