I don't do the same show on any two nights.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

One out of two aint gonna make it Those are the odds these days And in a world of statistics Hes left tryin to survive Till every other Friday at five.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Prosperity comes to those who observe the law of tithing.

I love New York. I love L.A. too. I love both places.

Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period it faced a twofold challenge to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation.

The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with you, adore her.

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.

There's safety in numbers

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole you should really feel this rug

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.