The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I would sound good on, as a produce….
The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..
Jump and the net will appear..
See-through goes with everything..
You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight..
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic natu….
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul..
Elvis was the firstest with the mostest..
LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all..
Do not suppose, my dearest sons, that when I have left you I shall be nowhere and no one. Even when I was with you, you did not see my soul, but knew….
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized..
I don't have to explain anything to anybody..
You are good, You are great, You are amazing.
Nothing good comes out of depression..
You can't lose sight of what you did to get there.
I don't intentionally make deep movies..
The main thing is not to be dead..
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally..
I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again..
Courage is always the surest wisdom..
A girl is a soul at sunrise..