Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong..
Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a….
Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone..
To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself..
Love can change everything..
I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go..
Freedom always comes with a price..
Things always work according to their nature..
Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..
I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol..
Less bitching...more learning..
You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….
I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..
I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this..
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway..
I like to work spontaneously..
I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did..
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so..
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself..
I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..