Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with.

...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I think it's a mistake to say that to be a healthy, well-adjusted person you need a monogamous relationship.

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.