My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

You are the love and light the world needs to make it beautiful.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Thought alone is eternal.