I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
I don't have many easy songs.