“Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?”

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.

You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.

It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

I’ve always had a great love for the blues.

What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.

I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.

I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.

When you’re telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.