If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.