“You can’t write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.”

Talent is only the starting point.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can’t buy, so let’s have another cup o’ coffee and let’s have another piece o’ pie.

How much do I love you? I’ll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.

A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

You’re not sick you’re just in love.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it’s wonderful, so they say.

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

A man may be hot but he’s not when he’s shot cause you can’t get a man with a gun.

I’ve got my love to keep me warm.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

After you get what you want you don’t want it.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.