How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly..
I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..
Power wears out those who don't have it.
I do to others what they do to me, only worse..
Thought is borne of failure..
There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….
I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..
We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..
I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..
Perhaps... you love too fiercely..
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.
But no one can ever say I didn’t sing..
I only invoked what you already knew..
My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..
L.A.'s always been good to me..
I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me..
Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..
He is coming, and I am here..
I love. I have loved. I will love..
I like that you let yourself be surprised.