Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'