When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

Learn how to fail intelligently.

The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.