I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

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.

Love your work and success is your next customer.

Joy is only as satisfying as repentance is deep.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.