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

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

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

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.