I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Our love lives because I live.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.