I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.