All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Solitude may rust your words.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)