Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.