You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.