Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Fear is the root of all courage.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.

When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.