Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

I am not going to play the victim.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

What does your product really mean to the people who buy it?

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.