The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

we who determine how quickly time passes.

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

Diversify your investments.

It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.