I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.