There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I am an addictive personality.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.