[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.

if onlyour tongueswere made of glasshow muchmore carefulwe would bewhen wespeak

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Don't make me have to choose between what I want and what you think I need. 'Cause I'll always be your little girl, but even little girls have got to dream.

Beautiful makeup, starts with beautiful skin.

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.