The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

Texas is where I found my musical self.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

We don't do 'dating' in Sweden.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.

I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.

People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Men never get free from morality, only women.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams!

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

I never thought love could be so magnificent until I saw the sincere look in your eyes, telling me that this time I would never shed another tear.