Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.