I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.