If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.

I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

Live a little, love a lot.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

My music lives because of real players.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.