I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

Only the nonreader fears books.

FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

American music culture is black culture.