“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

“I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.”

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

“Goodbye don't mean gone.”

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right”