One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.