If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.

No one else has ever opened doors for me - I opened them myself.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.