“I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.”

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

You can’t be jealous and be a leader.

I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.

You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.

Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

You can’t always get what you want.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.

I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.