I’m not a movie star. People know me, but they don’t necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it’s not like Justin Bieber. It’s a nice thing, people are cool.
I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I’ve been very fortunate – I understand that that doesn’t happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.
As you work on something, whether it’s a painting or a piece of music, it’s going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.
No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it’s a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
My mother was born in San Juan. So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, “Yeah, that was fun.”
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That’s my handicap!
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That’s publicity, man.
Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there’s a good quality in the presentation.
You name it and I’ve done it. I’d like to say I did it my way. But that line, I’m afraid, belongs to someone else.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn’t do soul food.
After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don’t have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
The ultimate mystery is one’s own self.
Imitations only better the original.
Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.