I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Swing ten times, and you may hit once.Swing a hundred times, and you may hit ten times.Swing a thousand times, and you may hit a hundred times.Swing a thousand times, and you may hit a thousand times.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

The child is father to the man.

So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be.

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

Strengthen your strengths and hire your weaknesses.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.