For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.