Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will get where you need to go, because there are so many points where a rational person would quit.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.