If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.