“I’m focused on the music. I think, as long as I keep making music just because I like to make it, people are gonna like it. But if I start going after different aspects like money, blah blah blah, then I don’t think people are gonna like it anymore.”

If you’re good at the art and you wanna make money, then it’s fine. But if you’re just doing it because you know you’re gonna make money, then I don’t know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let’s just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

The blues he sends to meet me, won’t defeat me. It won’t be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.