Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.