I'm doing what I've always done. Loving you and hoping you'll be brave enough to love me back.

You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t save you, Sara... and I can’t save you either.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

If I have a day off I will play golf.

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.