I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.