I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Ill be there anytime you need me by your side to drive away every teardrop that you cried.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I take things a little too seriously sometimes.

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

No matter how hard the loss defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

The internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Thinking about what Jamaicans want is a bit pressuring. So I try not to think about what Jamaicans want until I get the job done.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

You never see a French person eating alone.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

Revenge is a confession of pain.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss is infinite.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.