It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

I don't even sing in the shower.

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

Losing weight, even with the help of the operation I had, remains the hardest thing I have ever done - and the thing I am most proud of.

I hate losing.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

I feel the best part of my job is meeting my fans at my shows and seeing their faces when I'm singing to them on stage.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?