Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

There are many soul-stirring things in this world, but not many as profound as watching the beautiful man you love holding the baby you created together. No, not many.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.