My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

First the grub, then the morals.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The display is the computer.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.