. . . Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist. ' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.