All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

All truly great art is propaganda.

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

Sometimes I look at my own movies

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

Success becomes inevitable when one subconsciously conceives and believes that moving forward is a very achievable option in one's journey.

Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.