If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

And that’s how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.