If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Music is the language of heaven.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles.

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses. We combine and recombine them endlessly. We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the universe that most people will never know.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

My work speaks for itself.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.