Let's take everything just as it is.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.