"Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary."

“You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.”

Source : Speech in South Bend, Indiana, September 11, 1968, as reported by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. p. A3, September 12, 1968.

“I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.”

“If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.”

“I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.”

“I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.”

“To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.”

“I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis.”

“The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.”