How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly..

I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out ….

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?'.

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China]..

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..

What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end..