On stage, I make love to 25, 000 different people, then I go home alone.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.