Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

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.

The more you live, the less you die.

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.

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

I would just say Hillary [Clinton] did win the popular vote.

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.