One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback -- it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

Some people are just born stars - you either have it or you haven't, and I was definitely born one.

No matter how talented you are, not everyone is going to like you, but that's life. Stay strong.

When you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.