You got to get it while you can.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.