I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

You got to get it while you can.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Rock on out.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Dont compromise yourself. You are all youve got.

Dont compromise your self youre all you got.

The older the grapes sweeter the wine.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not if in the end everything will end right

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.