I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

You don't win 114 games by being lucky.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.