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..

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me..

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..

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary..

America was built on her citizens..

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the op….

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

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

And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars..

I don't really shout that much..