Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Every wicked act is a snare.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

Just pray and God gone make a way