I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Things are done according to money these days.