I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.