The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.