Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Find out what the customer wants and then make it better.

There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.

I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.