When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

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.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

God is never late, but He sure is slow.

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

My work has always been the product of my time.