Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.

I'm sorry I ruined your homecoming."He kissed me once more and then shook his head. "The only thing that could ruin this is not being with you.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.