Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

People who are not on Facebook are face to face.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.