I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.
Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do... then how we talk about them matters.
A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher.
I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.
It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
