I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

You are condemn your by thoughts.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

We must also ensure that we have the best medical care, education, and support for our military service members and their families, both when they serve and when they return to civilian life.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.