I'm an introverted sort of writer.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Faith doesn't make sense. It makes miracles.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure