Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

Every work is challenging if you want to do it perfectly !!

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.