You can’t change the music of your soul.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

All language is an aspiration to music.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.