I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.