See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it... until you hit it.

Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.

Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute?

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.