Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!

My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.