“I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.”

I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I can’t tell the difference. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike.

I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.

When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.