People don't understand that when I'm on the show I'm totally relaxed, hanging out, having a fun time, watching videos, and being goofy. Sometimes I say stupid comments, just being funny, and people think I'm a dumb person.
I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.
I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.
The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.
Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience. . . their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.
I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.
My life is very full; my wife makes it so. I'm 82 years old and I'm having the best time I've ever had in my life. I want to share that with all of you. Find a way to do that, find a way to be at peace with yourself, to enjoy the little things in life. Make them your own.
I just fell in love with Thomas McGuane the minute I saw him. He was the handsomest guy I'd ever seen, and gorgeous and sexy, and he had long hair and cowboy boots and tight jeans. So it was truly an act of love, to say the least, and it ended up having a permanent impact on my life, obviously.
The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?