I don't lie; I improve on my life.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

I’m secretly hoping for the full five.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.