Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.