Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful

You only know there is love and you feel beloved when you share, when you're gasping for air.You only know you are living and every moment you were longing for air.

Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.