Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.