Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

No one can give you freedom but you.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

Being free is a state of mind.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.