Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.
I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
