I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

I don’t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.