And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Never give up from problems because your problems make you stronger and experienced..

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.

How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.