If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

Your liberty will not be freely given to you.You must be bold to liberate yourself.

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.