After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, ‘She wishes she was that cool!
When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.
If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.
Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.
My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.
The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.
I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us. . . the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.
I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.