I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.