I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.