I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

The true meaning of Religion is to Love God and Man, Hatred is out of the Equation

If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

I believe I'm enough, you know what I'm saying?

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.