You got to get it while you can.

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.

Build a little fence of trust around today Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay.

Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.

In politics, acceptability plays very important role. On one hand, acceptability among the coalition partners is required for smooth functioning of the government. On the other hand, acceptability among the people is needed to run the country.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Nothing is absolute in security.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

No Family Is Perfect. We Argue We Fight. We Even Stop Talking to Each Other at Times. But in the End Family Is Family. The Love Will Always Be There.

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

Price aint merely about numbers. Its a satisfying sacrifice.

Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.