Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.