Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.
We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.
My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.
Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
