“Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.”

I used to teach dance lessons.

You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

I have to keep testing myself.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.

I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn’t thought of using a sound or a sample.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.