It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.