Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

I've been tired since I was 15.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

Old age isn't a battle

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

Rocks are more co-operative than people.

Things that are viral are things that motivate people to say I have to share this with everyone I know, and that has been more politics lately, and that's completely understandable.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.