Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword

If you love someone let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.