"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

"It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change."

"The cautious seldom err."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."

"If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person."

"For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best."

"I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification."