People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.