The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

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.

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.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I say money has no value

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I look one move ahead... the best!

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.