It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation.

...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good...

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.