You can learn a lot about a person through their dreams. It’s your subconscious, split open and bare for all to see.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war?

I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.

Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.

They say you’re only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do.

I never realized how much I loved life until I knew it was being taken away.

What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.

God sees us differently. We see where we are but God sees where we can be.

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.