I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

Despatch is the soul of business.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.