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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.
You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.
The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like