Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Help others to fulfill their dreams and you will fulfill yours.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

"I call them april babies cause they fools"

Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.