God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

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.

A warm soak can wash away life’s worries and soothe an active mind. Choose self-care.

They're not chicks. They're ducks.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.

Every new day begins with possibilities.