I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.