I dont really believe in regrets.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Every negative...Jas a positive side...

If your partner isn't bringing out the best in you, you're in the wrong relationship.

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.