I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.