I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Ill be there anytime you need me by your side to drive away every teardrop that you cried.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

As a mans salutations so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

I'm excited to see Cassie's fans and how they react to the ending of 'Clockwork Princess!' I love hanging out with readers and seeing the energy readers bring to a room: seeing so many people united in imagination is going to be wonderful.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I love my job, I've always loved my job.