The best revenge is massive success.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the watch

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Don't get even, get mad

A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day

I'm gonna live till I die

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me