"I'd go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my father."

"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I've accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish." ~Kelly Slater

It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio show near Chicago got the interview of lifetime: Muhammad Ali. But only a handful of people ever got to hear this time capsule. Until now.

"If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz." - Dave Brubeck in 2008

"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her voice--she goes: 'I want you.'" - Larry King

"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know." - Jim Morrison

"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace

"There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested for it."

"I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different."

"Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and dignity."

"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes."

"You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. ... Even if we had two, three days off I still had to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops."

"I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face."

"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro

"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly."

"If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine." - Ray Charles. 

"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." - Kurt Cobain

"When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had."

"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you're wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President. However did you know?'"

"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur

"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" - John Updike

"When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war"

"When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home... I had a dad."

"I've done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?"

"My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into"

"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on"

"It's all true, folks: all you need is love."

"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free."

"I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit out of my element"

"Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live"