This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I'll be here where the heart is

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

The European public has always been great to me.

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness.

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Small things make base men proud.