In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans..

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working..

Everyone changes all the time..

It ain't what you do it's how you do it..

If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out..

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize..

The public is never wrong..

I'm discriminated against all the time..

It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'..

I'm no longer interested in the possible..

As much as you can in your life, say yes..

I have wished you something None of the others would..

I would love to do something with Coldplay..

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me w….

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play..

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card..

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and….

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play..