I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

we train for war and fight to win.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?