Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.