I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Always ask yourself the question “Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.