You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The longer you live, the better you get.