You Better Get Busy Living,

Fear Is The Enemy Of Logic. There Is No More Debilitating, Crushing, Self-defeating, Sickening Thing In The World--to An Individual Or To A Nation.

I Said To Mr. Pavarotti Once ... A Marvelous Man And A Great Artist ... I Said To Him ... "maestro, I'm Having Trouble Closing Out A Note So That It's Almost As Thin As A Butter Knife ... Finish It Out Quietly Like That." I Said, "i Have Trouble Doing That. What Do You Think I Should Do?" He Said, "justa Close Up Your Mouth." That's All He Said, And I Fell On The Floor. I Thought He Was Gonna Give Me A Dissertation.

I Get An Audience Personally Involved In A Song - Because I'm Involved Myself. It's Not Something I Do Deliberately: I Can't Help Myself. If The Song Is A Lament At The Loss Of Love, I Get An Ache In My Gut. I Feel The Loss Myself And I Cry Out The Loneliness, The Hurt And The Pain That I Feel.

Nothing Anybody's Said Or Written About Me Ever Bothers Me, Except When It Does.

If You Can Make It There, You'll Make It Anywhere; It's Up To You, New York, New York.