"Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day."

"Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting."

"You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it."

"It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy."

"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."