I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.

It's early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.