It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions.

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.