Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin’ to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!

I have one son who’s a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they’re all doing their thing.

I had never done TV. I think it’s a foolish medium for, most rock ‘n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon’s plays.

I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can’t be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

Love’s an excuse to get hurt.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it’s completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or...

I didn’t write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

I’m not going to be doing any touring.

I think that’s one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It’s that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like...

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I’ve known Shawn for several years. And he’s just an amazing talent. He’s a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I’ve found them to be real smart and good workers.

There’s more women stars in Nashville all the time. They’re proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn’t afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn’t have three heads. I want a regular human being.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

I’ve always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

I’m gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I’ll be there for two weeks. And I’ll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to...

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and...

Soul music is pain – you can hear the slaves, the beatin’ and the hurtin’.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I really didn’t try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y’all want for lunch, and as we’re eating lunch, what do y’all want...

They can tie emotion into certain aspects of the body in Chinese medicine. There are a lot of things we can look at.It’s been one heck of a journey.

I’ve been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Rather be dead than cool.

Hollywood didn’t know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

I don’t like all of the music to be serious and deadly.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it’s what some guy who’s sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that’s...

If I’m a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

My bed isn’t made, I’m tired, I haven’t slept well for two weeks. I haven’t been laid in a month. I don’t have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

Now I’m way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It’s very cool to...

The bass player’s function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car… everything else is merely colours.

It’s like Willie Nelson. You’re an artist and you have different styles inside of you.