Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

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.

Io mi sono sempre lasciata attraversare dalle emozioni, investire con rabbiosa furia, ferirmi nella tormentosa lotta alla sopravvivenza.

I prefer male enemies to female ones

Life is an individual race.

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.