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.

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

You have to have respect for money, but sometimes you get people who stop thinking about their career, and for them, it is just a case of saying, 'Look at me. I have a lot of money now, and I can do whatever I want.' I wouldn't do that.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.