... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.