My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

Music will live in my hearth and I will try to shoot with my heart.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

I'm NOT lost, they just moved my street.

Don't let the wicked city get you down.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.