Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.