Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.