She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

My partner has to have good sized bones.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.