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I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like 'Too Sentimental' is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.