Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Talent is being able to please people.

Be knowledgeable, but not realistic!

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.