Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

Life Cuts Like a Kinfe when you Live it Without Purpose. Make it a thrive in finding yours.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.