"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Music is my religion"

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"