“If a song was ever good, it’s still good.”

When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I’m an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

Heard you told him that you’d love him ’til the end of time. Now that’s the same thing that you told me.

Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

If I dwell on what I don’t want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

I have angst in my life, but I’m like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.