The beginning of it starts at the end

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.