I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.

Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.

I think love and friends are two things that you don't chase. True love and true friends come.