I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.