The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.