It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

I don't really care for like fat jokes about women, specifically.