To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.