“When I die, when I die, I'll rot.
But when I live, but when I live,
I'll give it all I've got.”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Age of Adz"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)
Hair, written by Lady Gaga and RedOne
Song lyrics, Born This Way (2011)
“When I die, when I die, I'll rot.
But when I live, but when I live,
I'll give it all I've got.”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Age of Adz"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm?csp=34
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1654125,00.html
On himself
“I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“Why was my own dress good enough to live in, and not good enough to die in?”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Diogenes Laertius
“It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!”
Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer
Source: Sphinx's Princess
“I've lived my life again just telling it to you.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“It's my party and I'll die if I want to!”
Robert Patrick (playwright) (1937) Playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, novelist
Pouf Positive
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Clare Fischer (1928–2012) American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart" by Ernie Rideout, in Keyboard (August 2000)
“I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
On her plastic surgeries, quoted in The New York Times, 2008 (republished in The New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/joan-rivers-top-10-jokes-celebs-plastic-surgery-article-1.1928398#ixzz3CWeoRaTP