I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.