When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.