Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked like Brett Favre it just keeps coming back.
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Sometimes I'm so tired I look down at what I'm wearing and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down and I'm like 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup that's fine. It's pajama-y good night.'
The idea of redemption is always good news even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good bad it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good more good would happen.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.
There are good and bad times but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
To kill an error is as good a service as and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact.
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain the politics of constant conflict may be good but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities our faiths our families for our joy our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.
If you lead a country like Britain a strong country a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad a country that is always reliable then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.