My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

People who kill time are themselves not alive.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

No matter what you’ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!

The complicated futility of ignorance.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.