I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
All warfare is based on deception.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
I have no vices only desires.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.