I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

The wrong person isnt breaking their back to make you happy. So stop breaking your back for them.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Most people can relate to that whole annoying thing when people think they know who you are.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan - or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the '80s like 'Trans' and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?