I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

The stage is home, and there's no place like it.

I can deal with anything in this world, except your silence.

As a rule man is a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

What remains is solitude.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.