Bad beginnings, bad endings..

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale..

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves..

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but ….

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career..

Words, however, are things..

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over..

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!.

There seemed nothing to do but live..

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's….

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors..

Faith must be worked at..

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both..

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far ….