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Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.