I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame ….

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy..

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw..

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong..

And Clare, always Clare..

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing..

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me..

There is nothing more regenerating than music..

When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable..

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain..

You must ignore the bad and adopt the good..

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls..

What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live..

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how o….

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts..

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong..

He will love only once - but it will be for always..

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that..

No one will ever make your movie. They will only make their movie..