Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.