Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.