"You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served"."
"Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you."
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"I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear."
"What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did."
"You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times."
"Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel."
"Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good"