Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Spirituality can exist only in a pure heart.

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it.

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.