The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.
Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.
I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.