What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Feel the kiss of ocean breeze, Hear the song of dancing waveLet your soul fly away with seagullsTo fill the heart with the joy of life.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

I'm nothing if not an optimist.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.