If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

I think women get a little crazier when they run in packs. They want to outdo each other.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.