Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination.
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life. " My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.