When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.