It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.