I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.

I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.

Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.