I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Embrace the miracle of the sacred moment.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

There is hope for the hopeless.

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Zero-zero is a big score.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.