I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.