If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

A house without love ain't a home.

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Television is the third parent.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.