She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.

Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about.

She's an adversary, but undeniably an equal. Maybe she can bring me back from the beyond. If anyone can do it, I'm beginning to realize it could be her. Like she said, all I have to do is try.

You saw where I come from. No matter what I do or how I act, I'll always be the scum of the earth. I am who I am, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to change that.

I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

I told you. I don't do soft and gentle.

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

I started drama in high school.

I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.