Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

Not to decide is to decide.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

Are you woman enough to be my man?

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.