"I have respected women from the beginning of my life."

"I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people."

"I am not an artist which is 'in.'"

"Passion has been in my DNA for generations."

"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."

"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."

"There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever."