In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

A kiss is the sledgehammer that breaks the ice in you.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.