There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse!

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

It matters in a fatherly way.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.