To understand and be understood is to be free.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

The sun don't shine in your TV!

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was

So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.