There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

The Universe is making music all the time.