You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

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.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.

If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.