I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.