Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Today, you've got hedge fund billionaires aligned with Karl Rove, running ads against me to try to get Democrats to vote for you [Bernie Sanders]. I know this game. I'm going to stop this game.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.