When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Honesty is all you need.