In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

If you are not creative enough to create change change will be creative to create you.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

Tears mess up your makeup.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

Trust not one night's ice.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.