“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.

When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.

I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.

We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.

Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.

Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.

Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.

The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end.

There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life.

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It’s only one end of the string.

At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.