It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.