“I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.”

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

Every country I’ve had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

I’ve never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I love Tina Turner. I’m one of Tina Turner’s biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Unless you’re God, you are never too “big” to be a fan.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O’Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Tempo … now there’s a big word.

All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

Get the big idea and all else follows.