Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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.

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.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

To keep on battling and overcome the obstacles is what makes a true fighter.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.