Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Seek not outside yourself for love, because what you are looking for is what you really are.

Never dare to take someone else's life if you can't give it back.

Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist