I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.

I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.

The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure