There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.