The more you live, the less you die.

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.

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.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

If you want to save America, get America saved.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."