Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Love is lovelier The second time around.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

Move on up towards your destination

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.