Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade.

There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

I am trying to be kind instead of right.