Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.