I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

Men aren’t attracted to me by my mind. They’re attracted by what I don’t mind.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

God is love, but get it in writing.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

Asking “Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? “ opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

I love being a portraitist.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.