Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!