Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.