Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

We are all God's people; we have to get along and the [religious leaders] have to lead the way. If they don't do it, who else is going to do it? They're not going to do it and it's left to musicians or to someone else to deal with it.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.