A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.