On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.