You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.
Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.
I'm just trying to matter.
As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.
I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news
I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.