I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.