Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.