It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

No two wars are identical.

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.