Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.