What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

Home is where my horse is.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living. ☥

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!