"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

The wilderness leads to wonder of the moment.

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.