Anything that requires thought is just too much.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.

I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.