I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.