I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

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.

To every problem you encounting, there is an answer within it.

No one taught us how to address our impulses. No one.

There is a Pirate in every one of us

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I always turn to my intuition for personal guidance.

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do