I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.