By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

You don't get nothing and like it..

When you start somewhere, you've started..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids..

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

The public makes a hit..

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save..

The great appear great to us..

What gets celebrated gets replicated..

America was built on her citizens..

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue ….

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time..

I don't really shout that much..

Things that are unknown attract us..

As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil..