A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Politics:Lies about the truth, or the truth about lies?

Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.