“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”

“Her close friends have gathered.Lord, ain't it a shameGrieving togetherSharing the blame.But when she was dyingLord, we let her down.There's no use cryin'It can't help her now.The party's all overD...”

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

“If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.”

“I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.”

“'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month i...”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”