Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.

Other people's criticisms about what you are capable of, have nothing to do with you.

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone!

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!