I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

I'm going to the lobby to sign babies and kiss CDs.

May you find the possibilities in every moment.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.