Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later wont fall.

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Never underestimate the heart of a champion!

I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.

Exciting cities stay exciting and boring cities stay boring.

In a household of toddlers and pets we discover this rule of thumb about happy families that they are least two thirds incontinent.

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

To reform a man you must begin with his grandmother.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.