I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.