I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Destiny isn't a path any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest. Listen to your heart, because that's where your true destiny lies.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.