Stay away from trouble when you can.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Fight the good fight, not the bad one.

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture.

True Love is not a reality TV show!

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.