Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Control is the source of strategic power.

I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.