When you can’t reach the standards of another’s heart you must ask yourself, "What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption.

It all feels so different than it did yesterday. Is it because I'm aware of your feelings now? Or is it something else? Is it that...I know...what love is?

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.