I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

God is my everlasting Father.

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

Make peace with yourself and you make peace with the world. - Charmainism

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.