I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

We have nothing to lose in this life.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.