Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

Live a little, love a lot.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.