I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

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

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.