Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
You can laugh your way into hell but not out.
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work. . . although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.
To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.