I'm gonna live till I die.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

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.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.