Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.