But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I dont really believe in regrets.

Gossip needs no carriage.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

My first love thinks that I'm too young. He doesn't even know. Wish that I could show him what I'm feeling.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.