Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.