The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Talent is being able to please people.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

None of us are what we once were.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Everyone knows I'm no treehugger

There is no question we have an access stock.