If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.