How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

Wine gives one 'ideas, ' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.