Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.