My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.