I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

My body has always been one to fluctuate, and I've had to adapt my style accordingly.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.