Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

At this point in my career, I’m not interested in making people rich, like publishers and writers and producers. I’ve done enough of that.

I’ve lost some friends. A lot of the girls.

We’re in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep...

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn’t really get a chance to celebrate.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That’s what rock and roll is; it’s relentless.

You know, that’s kind of the thing, I can’t freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn’t, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a...

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me well for the work I wanted to do.

I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich, and rich is better.

I think a song that’s got something to say. I’m not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don’t last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat...

I love to rock ‘n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

There aren’t more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren’t more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go – when certain things will enhance the record you’re listening to.

I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

He was right about country music. He used to listen to this disc jockey, Jerry Brenner in New York, who would play country music once a week.

Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

I’ve done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that – stuff I’m not ashamed of, but that doesn’t represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

Make movies. Don’t make videos. Videos are evil.

she’s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

I’m looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I’m not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way – I don’t need...

Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

There aren’t any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you’re just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can...

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I’m there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

When we’re onstage, it’s like mind reading: we’re on the same page.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the...

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa’s satirical lyric’s than anyone that I know of.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn’t talk.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for...

I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

I would never do anything just for spite.

I’ve learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce,...

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.