Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Love lift us up where we belong.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.