Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...

How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Impossible is just an opinion.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.