I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

Always answer the phone. You never know if it's a hit calling.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.