The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Great. This girl was going to seriously mess with my ability to stay on parole. ~Maggie Mae Castro

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

Bad laws make bad customs.

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.