A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

I have written a book it's called "Stronger Together."

I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.

Let's welcome the children into the world.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.