Robert Rauschenberg // "If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
Elton John // "I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "I say to you today...that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream."
D.H. Lawrence // "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
Liza Minnelli // “My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.”
Françoise Hardy // "I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book...I forget everything which is terrible in our world."
Freddie Mercury // "That's it...the top slot. We're not going to be content with anything less. That's what we're striving for. It's got to be there...If you start saying to yourself, 'Maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I'd better settle for second place,' it's no good...you've got to have confidence."
Danny Trejo // "Oh, I love puppies, don't get me started."
Buckminster Fuller // "Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all of your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person."
Janis Joplin // "When I'm there, I'm not here...I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?"
Glenn Close // "It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways."
Marcel Duchamp // "I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do."