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

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

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.

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.