I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

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.

Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.

I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina, " he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment.

If you want to do something then be the best.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Strawberry fields forever

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.