The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
