I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

Again its time to pray for peace.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.