I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.