‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Money has a language of its own.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I grew up cursing a lot.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.