At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The inclination only desires that which is forbidden.

I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Being pretty doesnt mean that Im dumb. As well as being silent in a situation doesnt mean that Im wise. Merely look at it my way Im pretty because of all the ugliness Ive seen and dealt with and Im silent in your wake because even an idiot knows when to bite their tongue

You don't ask about what can be seen.

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Being thankful is not always experienced as a natural state of existence, we must work at it, akin to a type of strength training for the heart.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.