I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.