Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The truth will make you odd.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

The ordinary build houses when they have bricks

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.

Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.