Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.

The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways.

I love to see people succeed in their goals.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.