“You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.”

Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.

These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.

I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.

The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don’t know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.