Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

All it took was a couple weeks and boom--they sucked the crazy out of you and your soul went with it.

Maybe I was a bad kid. But I was also slowly turning to stone.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.