“I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”

Great artists suffer for the people.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Anger destroys your soul.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

I don’t make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don’t today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we’re heading.

Sexual healing is good for me.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Natural fact is, I can’t pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Don’t play with something you should cherish for life.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Mercy, mercy me, things ain’t what they used to be.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word “myth” only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

I need to listen to chill music when I’m driving. It prevents road rage.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.