It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.