I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

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.

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.