Long before I was a star, I was a fan.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

Strong determination makes the distination shine.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.