No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.