Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California and New York state.So I think we do have a path to victory.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man