I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.