People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.

Life and summer are fleeting, ’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

MankindMen, said the Devil, are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other's.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.