I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

Getting divorced was the right decision for me, but it's not the right decision for everyone else.

I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

I think you get one great love in your life like that, if you're lucky enough, where you hold nothing back. And I'm not saying that's the healthiest way to love either.

I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

When I was with Elvis, I used to remind myself there's Elvis on the marquee and then there's the living, breathing Elvis.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

All art is exploitation.