When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

A memory is never as good as a moment.

Demons, werewolves, zombies--they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.