[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

If I'm drinking I can either be the nicest guy ever or I'm the guy you should leave alone.

I plan on winning the Super Bowl next year.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

Depression is always in the details.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.