As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.