Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'